Fan for gars



(No Model.)

J.- M. v. E BEAU.

FAN FOR CARS.

Pa tented May 151 1888.

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ATTORNEYS.

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e of New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and UNITED STATES PATE T OFFICE. I

JEAN M. V. LE BEAU, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

FAN 'FOR CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 382,818, dated May 15,1888.-

-Application filed November 28, 1887. Serial No. 256.328. (No model.)

To all whom? it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JEAN M. V. LE BEAU,

, State of Louisiana, have invented a new and Improved Fan for Cars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The'object of the present invention is to provide for street, railway, and other cars or vehicles a fan attachment operated under the movement of the car, and capable of being made inoperative at will, which fan attachment is cheap, simple, effective, and not cumbersome; and the invention consists in the construction and combinations of the various parts, all substantially as Will" hereinafter more fully appear, and be pointed out in the claims.

Reference isto be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section through a car near one side, showing in elevation the parts of the present invention as apdisconnected. Fig. 5 is a cross-section taken on either of the lines as w of Fig. 3.

To one wheel-axle, A, of a car or other vehicle, is applied a'pulley, B, which, by a belt, 0, drives a pulley, D, secured on a vertical shaft, E, having. suitable hearings on one end of the car and adapted to be clutched with and unclutched from another shaft, E, upon which is secured at its upper end a pulley, F. A horizontal shaft, G, transversely mounted at asuitable portion of the upper part of the car-chamber, has at one end a pulley, H, by which, through a belt, a, from the pulley F, it is driven, and said horizontal shaft carries a fan or arms, K. Another fan-shaft, as vGr", is mounted in another part of the car-chamher, and has a pulley, H from which a belt, H extends to a pulley, H on the fan-shaft G.

The fan-arms may be of any suitable or approved form-such, for instance, as more or less that of a screw-propeller blade-and any number of such fans may be disposed at proper positions and suitable intervals of the interior car-space, all similarly driven. I

As particularly-shown in Figs 3 and 4, the connecting means between the shafts E E consists in asquared formation, as d d, of the adjacent ends of said shafts, uponwhich squared portions is placed a square apertured sliding sleeve, f, having at its upper end an eye, 9, adapted to engage a spring-hook, h, on the shaft E When said eye is so engaged, the sleeve will be held away from engagement with the-squared portion of the shaft E, as seen in Fig. 4, and at such time the fans will not be operated. On releasing the hook from the eye the sleeve will slide for a portion of its length to embrace the end portionof the other shaft, as seen in Figs. 1 and 3, and the fans will be operated.

Other forms of connection between the shafts E E may, if desired, be employed, it not being intended to limit the invention in this regard.

Having thus described my invention, whatI 7 5 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with the axle and a horizontalshaft in a vehicle-chamber carrying a fan,of a two -part 'vertical shaft, a 8c clutch-connection between said parts, and connections, such as described, between said axle and shafts, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination, with the axle of a vehicle provided with a pulley, B, and a fan-shaft in the car-chamber having a pulley, H, of the vertical shafts E E having squared ends, the sleeve f, adjustable on said squared ends, the

pulleys D F on said shafts, and the belts (l a, 0 A

JEAN M. v. LE BEAU.

Witnesses:

HYPOLITE GANOT, BUs. PAUEN. 

